So how did the Fedora Design Team do for Fedora 13?

How’s that hopey, changeyopen-y, freedom-y thing working out for us? How did things go for the Fedora Design Team in Fedora 13?

We were able to have artwork checked in the Alpha, the earliest yet.

We also had wide participation on the artwork, perhaps the widest yet.

We worked together on a single concept for the wallpaper rather than battling each other, so we had a cooperative and collaborative process for F13. Many, many folks were involved in the ideation and rendering process for the wallpaper, including Luya Tshimbalanga, Charlie Brej, Mel Chua, Samuele Storari, Mola Pahnadayan, and Kyle Baker (new contributor!)

We got a lot of help from GNOME rockstars like Lapo Calamandrei, Hylke Bons, and Jakub Steiner on cleaning up a lot of the old Bluecurve icons in time for Fedora 13, and tracking down the correct replacement icon or in some cases creating new updated icons.See them all here! Our icons are looking better than ever…

Hopefully I’m not forgetting anything or anybody but if I have let me know🙂

Better Ways to Communicate?

As Kyle Baker illustrated a couple of weeks ago, it can be hard for a designer not familiar with open source communities and communication tools (IRC, mailing lists, etc.) to participate, and we might be losing out on a lot of awesome rockstar designers who believe in our mission and values but are too overwhelmed by the learning curve involved to simply communicate.

How did I set this up? Basically, you create an email address for your drupal install, subscribe it to the mailing list(s) you’d like to syndicate, and it uses the mailhandler and listhandler modules to process the incoming mails. There’s a way to set it up so it’ll send emails out from the blog comments / forum posts made in drupal as well, but I haven’t set that up yet. Here’s a couple of the tutorials I used as references in planning and setting it up (I don’t know anything about Drupal, I had never used it before, and it only took me a couple of hours to figure it out):

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About Máirín Duffy

Máirín is a principal interaction designer at Red Hat. She is passionate about software freedom and free & open source tools, particularly in the creative domain: her favorite application is Inkscape. You can read more from Máirín on her blog at blog.linuxgrrl.com.

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3 thoughts on “Post F13 Fedora Design Team Status and First Meeting”

I think it would be a eye-widening experience for Kyle to attend something like LGM, seeing so many great designers working the Open Way and doing awesome stuff. A good motivation to learn the tech “sourcery”😀

Loved your previous post in March on this topic, and enjoying your drupal experiment here. Thanks for sharing your ideas and mock-ups! Looking forward to following and learning from the design-team blog and forum.